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In this week's instalment of Voice of the Sea Ice, Claire Concannon visits Dr Natalie Robinson's sea ice camp out on McMurdo Sound – the patch of ocean near Scott Base.  A team of nine from different New Zealand universities and research institutes are here to study the life found within the sea ice.   The researchers work hard when the weather is good, and this morning the team are out collecting samples while Dr Robinson juggles interviewing with Claire, and a spot of baking… 

Dive under the Antarctic sea ice near Scott Base into the weird world of cold-water life. Pink sea angels, worms that look like intestines, ocean creepy crawlies that get as big as your hand... and mysterious giant glass sponges. These sponges are one of the strangest, and oldest, animals on Earth: surviving without light, eating bacteria and viruses, and making themselves out of silica they absorb from the water. In most parts of the world, they live at depths too deep to dive, making them tricky to study. But in the cold waters of McMurdo Sound, they can be found in shallower waters. Now an international team of scientists are unlocking some of their secrets. Guests:Professor Ian Hawes, University of WaikatoDr Jürgen Laudien, Alfred Wegener Institute, GermanyKatherine Rowe, University of WaikatoDr Erik Wurz, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands,Andreas Schmmider-MartÍnez, Universidad Mayor, ChileLearn more:Read the article that accompanies this episodeListen to The secret life of sea spongesFind out what it takes to live and do science in Antarctica with the award-winning 2020 Voices from Antarctica series by Alison BallanceSign up to the Our Changing World monthly newsletter for episode backstories, science analysis and more.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

You do not have to go back very far to find a news story about a New Zealand Prime Minister having his or her trip disrupted by a shonky 757. The Prime Minister's trip to Japan, with an accompanying trade delegation, was disrupted over the weekend after the Air Force 757 broke down, again. And it was this time last year, to within a week, that the plane ferrying Chris Hipkins to China set off on its flight with a backup plane flying in reserve, in case the first one broke down. Remember that? ACT leader David Seymour said, at the time, the extra emissions were the equivalent of driving a Ford Ranger the distance of a trip to the moon three times. I don't know if that's accurate, might have been hyperbole, but knowing David Seymour, he would have crunched the numbers and done the sums. But it was literally this time last year that Chris Hipkins set off to China with a backup plane. Which was needed. Former prime ministers Dame Jacinda Ardern, Sir John Key - they've also become stuck when they were flying around the world after 757's and the Hercules aircraft broke down. In 2022, Ardern was left stranded in Antarctica overnight after the Herc broke down and she managed to hitchhike home on an Italian plane from McMurdo Sound travelling to Christchurch. A 757 broke down on Ardern's official visit to the US in June 2023, while she also took a commercial flight home from Melbourne in 2019 after another engineering issue. The then Defence Minister Peeni Henare and a 30 strong delegation were stuck in the Solomons in August 2022. In 2019, former Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters needed that second RNZAF plane to pick him up after breaking down in Vanuatu. And a trade mission to India, headed by Key in 2016, was cut short after a 757 was grounded in Townsville, forcing the Prime Minister and his entourage to stay the night in far North Queensland while they waited for the AA or the aviation equivalent of the AA. “We've broken down. We're stuck on the side of the road. Can you come and get us? Sure. Give us 24. We'll be there.” I mean, seriously. The miracle is that anybody gets into the bloody things. Would you? I mean, bless the RNZAF engineers for getting the dear old girls up off the ground and into the air again. But holy heck, it's all bound together with gaffer tape and rubber bands and #8 wire and the like. When Chris Luxon was opposition leader, he criticised Chris Hipkins' use of a backup plane on environmental grounds - and also said it speaks to concerns about the reliability of those aircraft breaking down as we've seen in past times.  Well he might be singing another song entirely after this. And this was after saying to Mike only last Tuesday: ‘ Oh, no, I've got every confidence, every confidence.' Wrong. So back in 2023, when we were talking about Hipkins' trip to China and taking two planes just in case, Chris Hipkins office came back to us last year and said using RNZAF aircraft is cheaper than a commercial charter and has other benefits such as security assurance, and the ability to travel point to point to reduce time away from home and additional costs such as hotels which would be required if there were stopovers. Well, I think we can pretty much rule out the cost factor, can't we? Using an RNZAF charter does not appear to be cheaper - and there have been numerous instances where it hasn't been cheaper, where they've needed either two planes to fly or they've needed to get in commercial charters or you've had to say to your Italian mates - 'can I please get a lift back to New Zealand?' I mean, how embarrassing. So I think we can rule out the cost factor. Let's just take a chartered aircraft that can get from point A to point B. I'm just stunned anyone gets on them. The other point they made was that the 757s are around 30 years old and nearing the end of their economic lives and due for replacement between 2028 and 2030. Bring it forward. They've got to be replaced anyway. I get that no Government wants to be the one that signs the cheque for a new aircraft, but if it's an Air Force aircraft that's going to be used for humanitarian work, if it's going to be used to police our economic zone, if it's going to be ferrying trade delegations, do you really have a problem with us moving forward the purchase date of an aircraft that we're going to have to buy anyway? It's not like it's going to be Air Force One kitted out only for the President with whale scrotum skin bar stools and like Aristotle Onassis had on his yacht. We're not talking plush Penthouse for Daddy kind of fit out, are we? We're talking about a utilitarian aircraft that comes under the auspices of the RNZAF, that the Prime Minister can then get into with a trade delegation and safely go from point A to B point B. I don't think that's unreasonable. Yeah, they're due to be replaced between ‘28 and ‘30. It's 2024. Bring it forward a bit, because it is not cost effective flying in a lemon. It's unsafe flying in a lemon. You don't want to be budging on your mates when you're stuck in Antarctica or Australia. These trips are important. God, no wonder Nanaia Mahuta stayed home. Looking at this aircraft - would you really want to park your buns on that and buckle-up? Not really, no. Just bite the bullet. We're just going to have to do it. It's a necessary expense. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the last two years, the ice around Antarctica has been at record lows - and that's just the tip of the iceberg. 

Outdoor environmental educator Amy Osborne joins us on the show today. Starting her career as a rowing coach, Amy discovered her passion for teaching- and particularly teaching the outdoors- a little bit later in life. This led her to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Wyoming, and California. It also gave her the opportunity with PolarTrec to conduct research at McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica, something we chat about quite a bit today. Amy shares what life on the ice is like, how this opportunity came about, and the importance of connecting with your place.Show notes : marinebio.life/87Photo credits : Amy Osborne pulls up the plankton tow net from a hole in the ice inside the Jetty Hut. McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Photo by Denise Hardoy (PolarTREC 2019), Courtesy of ARCUS.Support the show

Intro: The Amplified Elephants Shore from Deep Creatures  Vicki Hallett Ebb & Flow (2021)Ebb & Flow is a sound exploration using underwater recordings of the Barwon River revealing aquatic bugs, fish and other hidden creatures. The ebb and flow of the cascades to the estuary, the intermingling of salt and fresh water where the eel passes on its migration urging the listener to reflect and contemplate. Jacques Soddell The River (video, 2009)Main video component of my sound, light & video installation at la trobe university visual arts centre, view st bendigo july 23 - aug 16 2009. Original sound was played through a 5.1 surround system. Recording the Sea Organs In Zadar, Croatia In 2005 the architect Nikola Basic opened his incredible art project called the Sea Organ of Zadar (Morske Orgulje) which is a natural musical instrument that makes tones by the movement of the sea. Andrea Polli - Sonic Antarctica (excerpt)"Sonic Antarctica" features natural and industrial field recordings, sonifications and audifications of science data and interviews with weather and climate scientists. The areas recorded include: the "Dry Valleys" (77°30'S 163°00'E) on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 3,500 km due south of New Zealand, the driest and largest relatively ice-free area on the continent completely devoid of terrestrial vegetation. Another is the geographic South Pole (90°00'S), the center of a featureless flat white expance, on top of ice nearly 1.7 miles thick.The "Sonic Antarctica" Project is a radio broadcast, live performance as well as a sound and visual installation. It features recordings of the Antarctic soundscape made during Andrea Polli's seven-week National Science Foundation residency in Antarctica during the 2007/2008 season.

In 1955, The USS Wyandot set out for Antarctica as part of the US Navy's Operation Deep Freeze. My father, William R. Goodwin, was one of the Seabees on board. This episode features an interview with him that tells his story. It is accompanied by my re-imagining of the sea shanty Wellerman as The Wyandot Comes with new lyrics that tell my father's story.In 1957, The International Geophysical Year would bring scientists from eleven countries to Antarctica to study the geophysics of our planet. The objective of Operation Deep Freeze was to establish a Naval airstrip at McMurdo Sound, to be used as a staging ground for building a base at the South Pole the following summer. This episode features stories of life and death on the highest and coldest continent, early signs of climate change, powdered potatoes, 100 proof moonshine, and... a sea shanty!SHOW LINKSThe Wyandot Comes (complete song)Operation Deep FreezeUSS WyandotSeabeesThe race to the South PoleSacrifice Amid the Ice: Facing Facts on the Scott ExpeditionAmundsen's South Pole expeditionThe Antarctican SocietyRobert Falcon ScottVIDEO: Task Force 43  (Naval History and Heritage Youtube Channel)VIDEO: Operation Deep Freeze Phase 2International Geophysical Year (wiki)NASA International Geophysical YearDeath of Richard WilliamsWellermanSea Shanties on TikTok6 levels of Wellerman (Sea Shanty) (Youtube Guitar Tutorial  by Capo X)Antarctic Ice Sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study saysAntarctica Melts Under Its Hottest Days on RecordCHAPTERS[00:00] Intro[01:54] The Death of Robert Falcon Scott[04:11] Operation Deep Freeze[08:08] The Wyandot Comes: Part 1[09:50] Old Grape Jelly[11:45] The Mechanic Who Drove the Weasel[13:48] The Wyandot Comes: Part 2[14:54] Drinking and Dying[19:52] The Wyandot Comes: Part 3[20:37] Let's get Geophysical[25:18] Adventures Make for Friendships Long[35:15] The Wyandot Comes: Part 4[36:06] Outro

We take a closer look at a well-known Psalm. What is the significance of the sheep metaphor? Why and how should we follow this Shepherd? Thank you, worship team. Welcome, everybody. Thank you very much for being here. For those that are joining us online, thank you for joining us today. Many of you will know that this is an exciting time for our church. We're in a transition, but we're getting close to having a new lead pastor. And some of the sermons that you've been hearing for the last few weeks have all been about leaders and qualities of leaders and then choosing to follow leaders and choosing to follow even when some of the instructions might be tough in the future may look a little challenging, as we heard last week. But today, we want to talk a little bit more about what it means to be a follower. And you just heard Psalm 23, which is one of my favorite psalms read, and we read it together and many of you know it really well. And as you can see, I titled The Talk, Follow the leader. But I want to put a little challenge out there as we are kind of thinking about things, is that we all said and enthusiastically said in our hearts, the Lord is my shepherd. David said, the Lord is my shepherd. The question is, what does that say about you? If he's the shepherd, your the sheep. I must say, I am not super excited about being a sheep, and I'm going to share with you today. Why? Because sheep are kind of dumb and sheep are kind of stupid, and I don't like being that. And sheep need to be led and sheep need to be instructed and sheep need to be helped. David said, The Lord is my shepherd, the king, the boss is my shepherd, but that makes me a sheep. And so as we kind of go through what we're going to be talking about today, I really encourage you to put on your your sheep outfit, kind of put on your mindset of I'm a sheep, and what exactly does that mean when I talk about following the leader? So I want to tell you a story as we start, a true story about following leaders, and I hope that as you see how they in this true story, follow the leader. And then as we turn our attention to talk about Psalm 23, you put in your heart and attitude of what does it mean to be a follower? What does it mean to be a sheep? How can I be a good sheep and not a feral, vagrant, runaway kind of sheep? So I'm going to take you back 100 years, and in a newspaper in London, this advert appeared. The advert said men wanted for hazardous journey, low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in event of success. Well, it's kind of astounding because hundreds of people applied a bunch of women too, even though it said men wanted; good for them. And you might say, well, what was this all about? Well, this was an advert placed by someone called Ernest Shackleton and you might say - never heard of him. Well, I hope that after today you'll know who Ernest Shackleton was. But at the time, he was Sir Ernest Shackleton, actually a very famous explorer. This was around the time where they were trying to be the first to get to the South Pole. And you might remember the story that actually Shackleton was beaten by a fellow Englishman, Scott, who was beaten by a Norwegian Amundsen, who actually got to the South Pole and planted the Norwegian flag there first. So Shackleton was a bit miffed about that and decided he needed a new adventure where he could be the first person to do something. So this is where this expedition came from. So what he was going to do and hopefully you can see this on the screen, is he was going to come with his boat from South America and land at this place called Vassall Bay and then go across Antarctica to the South Pole, right across to the other side to McMurdo Sound and get picked up by a different boat. So he and his team were going to be the first people to go right across the South Pole, right from the one side of Antarctica to the other. This is him, this is Ernest Shackleton right here. This is his team, 18 of them were actually going to be the folks that would do the work as far as going across the whole of Antarctica with a few extra people. They are mainly manning the boat. I want you to notice that date. August 8th, 1914. I didn't have a way to have a little time ticker kind of going across the bottom of the screen, but I want you to watch as you hear the story of the timeline of how this story transpired, it sort of went on. So they started out headed down towards Antarctica from South America, you might say, well, what were they doing this in December? Or remember, seasons are switched around. So this is summertime. You can tell summer in Antarctica is not super exciting, but the idea was you could break through the ice. So there are these ice floes, but you can find your way with a big boat like they head through the ice floes because that was the point. I want you also to notice right here, it's already now getting into December. Four months into and they grinding their way slowly through the ice floe, getting closer to Antarctica. Problem was, the boat got stuck completely stuck in the ice floe, noticed February 14th, but remember, it's an ice floe, so they flowing. So they are sort of getting closer to Antarctica. So they go, well, this is OK. Everyone jumps out the ship. There's no point in sitting in a ship that's not really moving. They're playing soccer, other things kind of waiting for something to happen. Needless to say, the ship is not doing particularly well now because the ship is actually at an angle that I wouldn't be excited to be in that ship. It's totally stuck. In the ice. Note the date, February 14th, six months they've already been on this boat. Now, again, many of you know, seeing we live in a cold part of the world, if you've ever been up on the north shore of Lake Superior, how the ice, when the wind blows can start to get kind of packed up in these great big giant bits of ice that gets stuck together? Well, that started to happen. The ice started to kind of get a little broken up. The wind was blowing. It started to make these great big mountains of ice. And you can tell that even though they were trying to now break their way through this with sort of pickaxes wasn't going particularly well. July 19, 15, nearly a year. What happened then was the boat got crushed and they all had to get out of the boat onto the ice floe. So now they've got no way back - boats gone. They're all standing on the ice. This is Antarctica or the ice floe next to Antarctica slowly floating along. And it's October, more than a year, they've just been standing, sitting, waiting, and now the boat is crushed. So they thought, well, again, it would be a good idea maybe to now try and at least get across the pole because it would be important to try and get to the other side. Maybe they could hike across this ice floe to try and then make it across to the actual land. Problem was, every time they tried to do that, took like three days to go two miles because it was all the ice and snow and clearly they were not making much progress at all. Called it Patience camp while they were waiting their little message for us right in there. Remember, this is now more than a year waiting April 9th, almost a year and a half later, still stuck on the ice. Then disaster really struck, if you thought that wasn't bad. Got a lot worse, I started to break up and they couldn't actually even stay on the ice. So they had these three little boats and they got on the boats and they sailed to Elephant Island. Elephant Island is just a little piece of rock, but at least it was solid. So they got onto Elephant Island, but there's nothing there. So they're stuck, all 18 of them with their little boat and actually three little boats stuck on Elephant Island. So I want to just highlight how this went, so here they came, they got themselves stuck in the ice floe. They went all the way up the ice floe, eventually both broke up. Then they just floated along on the top in Patience camp. So they got to here where the ice started to break up. You notice the flow didn't go where they wanted it to go. It went this way. Eventually they got on Elephant Island, but they realized we can't just stay here forever and no one's going to come and find us and fetch us. So what to do? Five of them got in that one little boat and they sailed 800 miles to this place called South Georgia Island, where they knew there was a whaling station and they landed there. So Shackleton and four of his crew members sailed there. And then those guys came back and saved them. Notice the date, August 30th, 1916, two years stuck on the ice. So what do you think you can learn from that? Well, it's remarkable there was no mutiny, there was no suddenly Shackleton has no clue what he's doing. He got us stuck here. We will do something different. They waited patiently two years. They did what they were told. Together, they worked together, and when they were finally freed, nobody had died. A few people lost a few fingers and toes from from frostbite, but that was the worst of it. But pretty hungry they had actually eaten some of their dogs because they had nothing else to eat. But they trusted the leader. So as we now take our attention and we focus on scripture and we look at Psalm 23 and we think about David, who is writing about his leader, the shepherd, the Great Shepherd, and Jesus who said, I am the shepherd of the sheep. I am the real shepherd. I want us to really think about what kind of follower am I? Am I somebody who will listen, who will do what they're told, who will be patient and who will trust the leader? So although we are going to focus on Psalm 23, I think it's important just to remind ourselves about what it means to be a shepherd in Jesus' time. And again, I'm grateful to Kyle, who read part of this earlier, but I want us to just focus on John. Chapter 10, verses two to four. This is Jesus talking. This is the one who enters by the gates is the shepherd of the sheep. The gate keeper opens the gate for him and the sheep - note this - listens to his voice. He calls his own sheep - note - by name and leads them. When he has brought out all of his own, he goes ahead of them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. The sheep follow him because they know his voice. So I don't know what you experience with sheep herding is. Can't say I've done any of it myself, but where I grew up in South Africa, the way in which sheep are herded about little guys, youngsters called pickanins, and their job is to herd them. And they're usually like 10 year olds and they basically all just run behind the sheep, kind of herding them. If you went to England, you know, you might have a sheep dog and the sheep dog would be herding the sheep. And maybe here you'd be like ranchers out there and the ranchers would have horses and be kind of herding the sheep. Not in Jesus day and even today, not in the Middle East. The shepherd knows the sheep. The shepherd knows the sheep by name. The shepherd calls the sheep and walks ahead and the sheep follow him. So, again, thinking about what it means to be a sheep following the great shepherd, think about the shepherd in the front, not the shepherd herding us from behind. So turning to. To Psalm 23, I want you to put in your mind what David was writing. This is King David. What is he writing as he writes the psalm? He says this. The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing, he makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters. He refreshes my soul. He guides me through the right paths for his namesake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows, surely your goodness and love will follow all the days of my life and I will live in the House of the Lord forever. So I want us to think about four things that good sheep should remember and the things I want us to think about: Every time as you're thinking about what David is saying here, the shepherd is not some abstract person and head, the shepherd is calling the sheep by name. So I'm not a number, I'm not just one of many sheep. My shepherd, Jesus Christ. He knows me personally. Second thing we're going to talk about is the path is not always easy, but the shepherd will always be with me. Many times the sheep were kind of quick to get lost. We don't really know where we're going. I don't know the way, but the shepherd does and he's the one who's going to lead me. And finally, the shepherd loves me and provides me with everything that I need. So I learned a lot about sheep this week because I was reading up about sheep, and I must say it didn't help me much. I cannot really tell one sheep different from another. So I don't know about you, but when I look at that flock of sheep. I have a lot of trouble recognizing that Billy is the second sheep on from from the right or Jill is the one that stood in from the left. They look exactly the same to me. Maybe if I was fortunate and I got up close and I read the tags, I might see they had a number and that would help me tell the sheep different. But quite frankly, those sheep look exactly the same to me. Hard to tell sheep apart. But not to the great shepherd, not to my great shepherd. Jesus said, I am the Good Shepherd. He said, I know my sheep and my sheep know me. He says he calls me by name. And he does it for his namesake. So, again, it's a beautiful picture that it's not just about me, it's about him. But yet there's a personal touch where he knows me by name. And if you read Psalm 23 again and read it from David's perspective, David understands this perfectly because read it again. Notice the number of personal pronouns. I counted them: 17. 17 personal pronouns where David says, I know this shepherd knows me. He says, the Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his namesake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff. They comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, unite my head with oil, my cup overflows, surely your goodness and mercy will follow me, me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. So what's the point of that? Maybe you go, nobody cares. In my life stuff's happening and I just don't feel anybody cares. Nobody really knows. Nobody really understands. Wrong. The Good Shepherd says, I know your name. I call your name, I want you to follow me. I love you. You're important to me. I want a relationship with you. We're not just a number. Jesus knows us by name. So the second thing is the path's not always going to be easy. So, again, looking up things about shepherds, this is a true story. This is actually a photo essay from 2019 and this is in a country called Georgia and this is the Tusheti Mountains, the Albano pass. Now, maybe a little difficult to see this, but this is thousands of sheep being herded over these paths. And you may not appreciate it from the picture very well, but these are sheer cliffs just straight down. And these shepherds are taking the sheep from one set of pastures, which dry up because of no rain across the mountains to the other side so that they can get to green pastures before there really isn't anything remaining behind. Six of them and tens of thousands of sheep, the shepherds just leading them over the mountains, not an easy path, but the shepherds are there to make sure it happens. So you might say, well, how does that tie in to Psalm twenty three? Well, many times sheep are frightened, and I think you could safely say that, David, this was a time in his life when he was frightened he was in a cave writing this. And the reason he was in the cave is that his son, Absalom, had just affected a coup in his country, and they had kicked him out as the king and they were looking to find him, to kill him. So when he writes The Darkest Valley or the valley of the shadow of death, that's real, he's looking out of the cave expecting Absalom's soldiers to find him and kill him in the presence of my enemies. The sad part here is the enemy he's talking about is his son. So, again, totally understands the fear, but you note he says, I fear no evil. Because why? Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You're anointing my head with oil in the presence of my enemies and one day I will be with you forever. So as we think about that many times, there are hardships in our lives, many times things are challenging. Many times you might feel I'm actually afraid and fearful of circumstances, the future. The Good Shepherd says. I know it's not easy, but I'm with you. Nothing will happen to you that isn't my will. Says, I have you in the palm of my hand. Well, similarly, I think a good thing for us as sheep to remember is we don't know the way, but the shepherd does and he's going to lead us. So the same sheep being taken over those mountains through the Albano pass, the shepherds, they know it because they do it every year. I'm sure many of the sheep don't. It's actually kind of terrifying because mists blow in. I don't know if any of you have hiked hills and mountains and been there when a mist is blown in and you really can't see where to go. And you worried that you could just fall off the mountain at any time. And that's not just abstract. I have a friend who who died on a mountain like that, got up there and got into the mist and got lost and froze to death. So bad things can happen and I don't know the way and I can feel terrified, but my shepherd does and he will lead me. We can very easily get lost. But the shepherd goes, I know, and he leads me and he leads me along the right path and he is taking me one day to the House of the Lord. That's where I'm going. So when you look at your life and you say things really to me, you don't seem very clear. I don't know where things are going. My job is challenging and I feel lost. My family's got challenges and and I feel, you know, I don't know where this is leading. These relationships I'm in. It's just hard. We have a good shepherd who says, follow me, I know where you're going, I will lead you, I will take you down the right path. The fourth thing is the shepherd loves me and provides everything that I need. So let me introduce you to Chris, the sheep. So, Chris, the sheep that you can see on the left is actually a world record holder. Now, I didn't realize this until I read up about sheep, but just to reiterate, I said this earlier, but it's probably true. Sheep are remarkably dumb and sheep are remarkably needy. And the reason they're needy is you need to shear a sheep. If you don't actually take the wool of the sheep, the sheep will eventually grow so much wool that they will no longer be able to stand up straight and will fall over. So this is a feral sheep who in Australia managed to get away from the herd and for eight years kind of did his own thing and there was 91 pounds of wool on this here sheep. That is a world record. Look it up. Beaten out. Shrek the Sheep was another one of their world record holders before that, or Barak, which was the one before that one. But the funny thing is, ninety one pounds equates to 30 sweaters. Or if you say in Australia, that would be 30 jumpers. But what's the point of that? The sheep need to be tended to. They need to have something done for them, because if you just let the sheep do what it wants to do, it'll end up like Chris the sheep and actually be in danger of its life because it didn't get what it needs. My shepherd loves me. My shepherd knows what I need. My shepherd will sometimes do some shearing and we could probably have another whole conversation about what shearing the wool of us might look like. But again, my shepherd loves me. The other thing I learnt about sheep that I thought was kind of interesting is sheep don't really plan ahead, they don't store things up, they're not like squirrels and put the acorns away for the days they might need them. They basically will eat everything and they'll eat it right down to the dirt. And then when it's run out, it's run out. But again, the shepherd understands that and the shepherd says you will get nothing, you will lie down in green pastures, you'll be led by still waters refreshing your soul. A table will be laid before me. My cup will overflow. Everything I need, my shepherd will provide, not everything I want. Everything I need he will provide. So you might say with me thinking about what it means to be a sheep, is the Good Shepherd really worth following? And I would say absolutely. Jesus, the Good Shepherd says, follow me. And why might we want to do that? Well he lay down his life for his sheep and he says, I know you by name. And he says, I will always be with you and I will lead you and I will provide everything that you need. So with those four kind of things that we might remember taking us back to the story of Shackleton and his and his team, what are some principles that we should maybe take away about being a good follower? So the three things I want us to think about are patience, obedience and trust. Waiting patiently for God's timing. Doing exactly what Jesus tells us to do and trusting our leader, Jesus Christ, who knows what's best. So you might say, where do I get that from Psalm twenty three? Well, the first one is waiting patiently. It says in verse two David says he makes me lie down in green pastures. I think that's kind of interesting. I lie down, you know, I might bring a frolic in those green pastures, says the Good Shepherd makes you lie down. And the thing I learnt about sheep, sheep don't sleep much about 15 percent of the time of the day would be sleeping and most of it is just little naps, most of it standing up. If they lie down, they really just lie down on their chest and never lie down on their side. Sheep lying down on the side is in big trouble. It's going to die. But generally speaking, and this was interesting because it came from Philip Kellar, a shepherd look at Psalm 23, he says there are four reasons why sheep generally won't lie down, won't lie down because they're frightened. They won't lie down because other sheep around them are agitating them and they won't lie down because they're bothered by pests or they won't lie down because they're hungry. So, again, I see a lot of parallels there when Jesus says - God, our father says, lie down in green pastures. We should be able to do that because the Good Shepherd is looking after us. We don't need to be frightened. Those around us who may agitate us, things that irritate us, people that irritate us, news that may irritate us. He says, lie down, rest, don't let it be agitating you. Might be bothered by pests, things that are troubling us, flies and the like, but we think about comparisons. You might think about things like, you know, finances, other things that are really troubling you says just rest. Just lie down, maybe hungry. Again, our Good Shepherd provides what we need. We need to do exactly what Jesus said we should do. Again, it comes from verse three. It says, He guides me along the right paths for his namesake. He prepares a table in the presence of my enemies. Really interesting. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have expected him to put down the table in the presence of the enemies. I would think we would rout the enemies first and then we'd celebrate afterwards at the dinner table. But this putting the table in the presence of my enemies, that doesn't seem to me to make a lot of sense. But yet, if you think about it, that's what Jesus is telling us to do, and that's what we as sheep are just following, what Jesus is telling us to do. If he is setting a table for us and it may be in the presence of what we think are unfavorable circumstances, just do it, because by doing it, the Good Shepherd will take care of the enemies, if you like. One of the other things that for me was really a blessing is I was thinking about how Good Shepherd leads us and tells us exactly where we need to go. In my mind, I was thinking again of Psalm 119:105. It says your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. And the reason I love that verse is - again, if you think about a light and a lamp, it just shines over here. So it doesn't give me the whole path, it doesn't illuminate the entire environment, it just tells me what's next. And then I take a step and then it illuminates the next step. And then I take another step and then it illuminates some more. So when the Good Shepherd leads me, he doesn't say, let me sit you down and map it out all for you and show you exactly where you need to go. He says, All I'm going to do is give you enough light for the next step. And when you take it, he'll give you enough light for the one thereafter. And the last thing is trusting in Jesus, who knows what's best for us. So again, David says he refreshes, he restores my soul in verse three. Really interesting word that's used there. I often think of refreshing and restoring like, you know, I'll just have a glass of water and that will kind of refresh me and I'll be fine. That's not really the word here. The word here is refurbish, rebuild. It's a little bit like that junker car that needs to totally be stripped down to kind of the to the chassis and then rebuilt and refurbished. That's what he does when he's restoring. He's taking it from a shadow of its former self and giving it all of its former glory. That's the kind of restoring our good father is giving us. The rod and staff comfort me again, trusting my leader. Well, the rod was ready to beat off predators and wolves and other things, and the staff was to catch that sheep before it made a run for it. And kind of the crook, if you like, grab it by its neck and pull it back. Surely goodness and mercy, goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life. Again, our father Shepherd, who is going to take us to what he knows is the future for us. And we know that also from Romans, Chapter eight verses twenty seven and twenty eight. It says, and God who sees our hearts knows the thoughts of what the spirit is, because the spirit pleads with God on behalf of these people and in accordance with his will. We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. So when I told you the story about Shackleton, I left one piece out. This is really interesting. So remember how I told you they got stuck on that little island, Elephant Island, a little bit of a rock. And then five of them got in one boat and headed for South Georgia Island where they knew there was a whaling station. And they went 800 miles rowing in high seas, took them a few months, got all the way their, got to south Georgia island. Interesting thing. They landed on the wrong side of the island and it was just granite cliffs and glaciers and ice. And the five of them landed and three of them were too weak to go on. So they left them. And two of them, Shackleton and one other guy, hiked for weeks over the mountain all the way until they got to the whaling station, even when they got there, getting back to getting the other guys took a massive attempt. Three attempts, three months is how long it took. The first time they went ice floes were too thick, couldn't get to them, backed off, came back the next time. The seas were so heavy they couldn't actually get in to actually help the guys. Took them three months to get there. But the point the leader came back to get all the men eventually. Our Good Shepherd did more than just come back, our good shepherd died on the cross for us. John 10:11 says, Jesus says, I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. And as we can see him, Psalm 23, his goal is that we might have a relationship with him one day in heaven. David is saying, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. So what's my challenge to you today? There are lots of voices out there, lots of people saying, follow me, lots of teams. You know, different situations saying, I know what to do, follow me. There is really only one good shepherd and the Good Shepherd is Jesus Christ, and the Good Shepherd says, follow me. So what kind of sheep are you, because if you say the Lord is my shepherd, you're basically saying I am a sheep. Am I going to be the kind of sheep that obediently follows after Jesus, wherever he says, patiently waits for whatever he has for me and trusts the Good Shepherd to do what is right in my life, even when things don't seem ideal? Follow Jesus Christ.

I first heard of Ernest Shackleton when I was given a book titled Endurance. The book, written by Alfred Lansing, is well written and inspirational. It entails the 1914 ill-fated expedition to Antarctica led by Shackleton. They proceeded from England aboard the ship, Endurance. The expedition had planned to make the first crossing of Antarctica. They would travel via the South Pole from the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound. The Endurance became trapped in the ice and drifted for 10 months. Eventually, the ice crushed the powerful ship. Shackleton and his men then drifted for another five months on ice floes. Running low on food and supplies, they escaped in boats to uninhabited Elephant Island.

I first heard of Ernest Shackleton when I was given a book titled Endurance. You can also get this book by clicking on the icon to the right. (Another wink). The book, written by Alfred Lansing, is well written and inspirational. It entails the 1914 ill-fated expedition to Antarctica led by Shackleton. They proceeded from England aboard the ship, Endurance. The expedition had planned to make the first crossing of Antarctica. They would travel via the South Pole from the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound. The Endurance became trapped in the ice and drifted for 10 months. Eventually, the ice crushed the powerful ship. Shackleton and his men then drifted for another five months on ice floes. Running low on food and supplies, they escaped in boats to uninhabited Elephant Island.

This is episode 21 and we’re taking a close look at the Mount Erebus disaster where an Air New Zealand McDonald Douglas DC-10 crashed on 28th November 1979, killing all 257 passengers and crew. At first it looked like straight pilot error - a CFIT or controlled Flight Into Terrain accident. But that would change as inquiries led to court cases. Of all the accidents I’ve described, this one has some of the most unfortunate set of circumstances and one of the most difficult recoveries afterwards of any aviation accident in history. Mount Erebus is on Ross Island part of the Antarctic archipelago and as you’ll hear, a juddge eventually called some evidence presented by Air New Zealand as "an orchestrated litany of lies" and which took 30 years before anyone at the airline formally apologised for that deceit. To say the court processes which took place were riven by bitterness and a distinct failure of leadership is pretty much an understatement. In fact, the phrase ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’ entered the Kiwi lexicon for some time and by the end of this episode I hope you’ll see why. The first aviation inquiry found pilot error caused the accident but then a Judge in a follow up investigation ruled the cause was incorrect data which had been knowingly left in a flight computer despite this error being reported. When a judge uses a phrase like conspiracy by senior management, then something has gone seriously wrong in terms of governance. But the legal wrangling didn’t end with the judge – there was an appeal then intervention by the privy council in London as New Zealand is a commonwealth state. So let’s go over the facts that are not in dispute. Flight 901 was marketed as a unique sightseeing experience where the passengers paid around $360 US Dollars each to be flown over Antarctica with an experienced guide who pointed out features and landmarks using the plane’s PA system. Some big names had been involved for example Sir Edmund Hillary had acted as a guide on flights and was actually supposed to be on board 901 that day in November 1979, but cancelled because he had other bookings. Unfortunately for long-time friend and climbing companion, Peter Mulgrew, he was available and stood in for the hero of Mount Everest. Mulgrew would never return from the Antarctic. The flight plan was complex compared to a normal commercial route. After the 5,360 miles from Auckland to the frozen south, the pilots would put the DC-10 into a series of low-flying sweeps out to the sea of McMurdo Sound or over the Ross Ice Shelf or both depending on time and the weather, then return home. There had been 13 previous flights which went off without serious incident and the whole concept had started two years earlier in 1977. It had become a great money-spinner for Air New Zealand, not to mention an excellent marketing tool. Come fly with Air New Zealand and see the world’s least visited Continent for a cool $359 New Zealand Dollars – which now set you back around $1300 US dollars. The flight left Auckland International Airport 8am on the morning of the 28th November and was due back at 7 that night. Usually flights would not be filled to capacity so that there would be space allowing passengers to walk about and get a better view of the incredible frozen continent from different places in the cabin. Cocktails would be served for the travellers as they clicked away on their cameras, many of whom would be puffing away on cigars and cigarettes. The aircraft that day was Air New Zealand’s McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 trijet and the plane was registered ZK-NZP. It had logged more than 20,700 flight hours prior to the crash.

In this episode of the podcast, I have talked more about Antarctica. But here is the catch I talked about if you remember that it is gonna be the final part of Antarctica but there are so many things to share with you. So I decided that I will continue the Antarctica series with more interesting episodes lining up. Here are the things that I described in this podcast. I have talked about:Antarctica Antarctica Climate Wind ChillThe Antarctic DivergenceThe Antarctic ConvergenceKrillAdditional Info: Antarctica, and particularly the South Pole, attracts much interest in astronomical and astrophysical studies as well as research on the interactions between the Sun and the upper atmosphere of Earth. The South Pole is a unique astronomical location (a station from which the Sun can be viewed continuously in summer) sitting at a high geomagnetic latitude with unequaled atmospheric clarity. It possesses a thick section of pure material (ice) that can be used as a cosmic particle detector. Automatic geophysical observatories on the high polar plateau now record information on the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere, providing data that are critical to an understanding of Earth's response to solar activity. The volume of South Polar ice must have fluctuated greatly at times since the birth of the ice sheets. Glacial erratics and glacially striated rocks on mountain summits now high above current ice-sheet levels testify to an overriding by ice at much higher levels. General lowering of levels caused some former glaciers flowing from the polar region through the Transantarctic Mountains to recede and nearly vanish, producing such spectacular “dry valleys” as the Wright, Taylor, and Victoria valleys near McMurdo Sound. "Recognizing that it is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord; ...the establishment of a firm foundation for the continuation and development of such cooperation on the basis of freedom, of scientific investigation in Antarctica as applied during the IGY accords with the interest of science and the progress of all mankind."Twitter: https://twitter.com/realyashnegiSuggestions are always welcome: yashnegi4920@outlook.comSupport the show (https://paypal.me/yashnegi27?locale.x=en_GB)

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The Ross Ice Barrier claims its final victim of the Heroic Age as Joyce, Richards and Wild struggle to get the depot party back to safety, then McMurdo Sound takes two more lives when a gamble on the weather goes against Mackintosh and Hayward.

In 1911, three British explorers made a perilous 70-mile journey in the dead of the Antarctic winter to gather eggs from a penguin rookery in McMurdo Sound. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the three through perpetual darkness and bone-shattering cold on what one man called "the worst journey in the world." We'll also dazzle some computers and puzzle over some patriotic highways. Intro: In 2014, mathematician Kevin Ferland determined the largest number of words that will fit in a New York Times crossword puzzle. In 1851, phrenologist J.P. Browne examined Charlotte Brontë without knowing her identity. Sources for our feature on Apsley Cherry-Garrard: Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1922. Sara Wheeler, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 2007. "Scott Perishes Returning From Pole," Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 11, 1913. Paul Lambeth, "Captain Scott's Last Words Electrify England and World by Their Pathetic Eloquence," San Francisco Call, Feb. 12, 1913. Hugh Robert Mill, "The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913," Nature 111:2786 (March 24, 1923), 386-388. "Cherry-Garrard, Explorer, Dead," New York Times, May 19, 1959. "Obituary: Apsley Cherry-Garrard," Geographical Journal 125:3/4 (September-December 1959), 472. James Lees-Milne, "From the Shavian Past: XCII," Shaw Review 20:2 (May 1977), 62. W.N. Bonner, "British Biological Research in the Antarctic," Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 14:1 (August 1980), 1-10. John Maxtone-Graham, "How Quest for Penguin Eggs Ended," New York Times, Oct. 2, 1994. Gabrielle Walker, "The Emperor's Eggs," New Scientist 162:2182 (April 17, 1999), 42-47. Gabrielle Walker, "It's Cold Out There," New Scientist 172:2315 (Nov. 3, 2001), 54. Edward J. Larson, "Greater Glory," Scientific American 304:6 (June 2011), 78-83. "When August Was Cold and Dark," New York Times, Aug. 8, 2011, A18. Robin McKie, "How a Heroic Hunt for Penguin Eggs Became 'The Worst Journey in the World,'" Guardian, Jan. 14, 2012. Matilda Battersby, "Cache of Letters About Scott Found as Collection of His Possessions Acquired for the Nation," Independent, July 19, 2012. Karen May, "Could Captain Scott Have Been Saved? Revisiting Scott's Last Expedition," Polar Record 49:1 (January 2013), 72-90. Karen May and Sarah Airriess, "Could Captain Scott Have Been Saved? Cecil Meares and the 'Second Journey' That Failed," Polar Record 51:3 (May 2015), 260-273. Shane McCorristine and Jane S.P. Mocellin, "Christmas at the Poles: Emotions, Food, and Festivities on Polar Expeditions, 1818-1912," Polar Record 52:5 (September 2016), 562-577. Carolyn Philpott, "Making Music on the March: Sledging Songs of the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic Exploration," Polar Record 52:6 (November 2016), 698-716. Listener mail: Robinson Meyer, "Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face," Atlantic, July 24, 2014. Adam Harvey, "Face to Anti-Face," New York Times, Dec. 14, 2013. "How to Find a Spider in Your Yard on a Tuesday at 8:47pm." This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Petr Smelý, who sent these corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Robert Falcon Scott makes his first but far from his last appearance in the series and a two year voyage to McMurdo Sound.  Much sledging.  Very scurvy. Sir Clements Markham continues to kick downhill to have his way but the back of his bullying breaks when someone take his prophecies of doom at face value. Wilson, Shackleton, Crean, Frank Wild, Taffy Evans, Lashly and Joyce make their Ice Coffee debuts appearances while Louis Bernacchi is back for an encore.  I struggled to keep this episode to a reasonable time, as I knew I would.  So much has been written about Scott and his story looms so large in my early understanding of the continent that I really had to work to keep this as concise as I did, which isn't very.  I see a shadow on the horizon in the form of Scott's second voyage south.  I don't think I can keep that to one episode no matter how many reefs I put in my script. Among others we've got Charcot's efforts and the return of Shackleton to navigate before we get to the Terra Nova expedition, though, so set stunsails and topgallants and we'll make what way we can before 1912 and the five concurrent expeditions of that year catch us up. The addendum appended to the episode refers to this crew.

Gabby O'Connor's art installation "Studio Antarctica" is currently showing at Porirua's Pataka Art Museum. In 2015 Gabby spent several weeks researching her art living in a shipping container on four metres of ice over the 500 metre deep McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

Been crazy busy will come out within week new epsiode july 24 World cup has got in the way but you should know USA played really well,  game of the tournament New episode June 24th         Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navyofficer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: theDiscovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.                                                            Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 19112014-06-08   During the research for his dual biography of Scott and Roald Amundsen,[9] polar historian Roland Huntford investigated a possible scandal in Scott's early naval career, related to the period 1889–90 when Scott was a lieutenant on HMS Amphion. According to Huntford, Scott "disappears from naval records" for eight months, from mid-August 1889 until 26 March 1890. Huntford hints at involvement with a married American woman, of cover-up, and protection by senior officers. Biographer David Crane reduces the missing period to eleven weeks,   Popular hero[edit] Discovery returned to Britain in September 1904. The expedition had caught the public imagination, and Scott became a popular hero. He was awarded a cluster of honours and medals, including many from overseas, and was promoted to the rank of captain.[35] He was invited to Balmoral Castle, where King Edward VII promoted him a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO).[36]   The expedition had both scientific and exploration objectives; the latter included a long journey south, in the direction of the South Pole. This march, undertaken by Scott,Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, took them to a latitude of 82° 17′ S, about 530 miles (850 km) from the pole. A harrowing return journey brought about Shackleton's physical collapse and his early departure from the expedition   Dispute with Shackleton[edit] By early 1906, Scott had sounded out the RGS about the possible funding of a future Antarctic expedition.[39] It was therefore unwelcome news to him that Ernest Shackleton had announced his own plans to travel to Discovery's old McMurdo Sound base and launch a bid for the South Pole from there.[40] Scott claimed, in the first of a series of letters to Shackleton, that the area around McMurdo was his own "field of work" to which he had prior rights until he chose to give them up, and that Shackleton should therefore work from an entirely different area.       Scott's group took this photograph of themselves using a string to operate the shutter on 17 January 1912, the day after they discovered Amundsen had reached the pole first.       Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (/ˈdɑrwɪn/;[1] 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist,[2] best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.[I] He established that all species   ct. 1805 - Dec. 1831:Events leading to the Voyage The Napoleonic Wars South American trade relations The Hydrographic OfficeEarly H.M.S. Beagle history About the second Beagle Survey The search for a Naturalist  Feb. 1832 - Jan. 1833:                Jan. 1833 - Nov. 1833:          The Beagle arrives at Brazil                    The Mission is startedSurvey work at Rio de Janeiro                 A visit to the Falkland Islands Survey work at Buenos Aires                   Darwin leads the Gaucho life               Two boats hired to assist surveys            Darwin explores Buenos AiresViolent storms at Tierra del Fuego           Darwin explores the Rio Negro   Nov. 1833 - Jun. 1834:               Jun. 1834 - Apr. 1835:Return to the mission                           Arrival at ValparaisoFalkland Islands, revisited                     Darwin's 1st Andes expeditionExpedition up the Rio Santa Cruz           FitzRoy's nervous breakdown     The Beagle rounds the Cape                  Survey of Earthquake damage Fitreakdown                                          Darwin's 2nd and 3rd Andes expedition                                                                                            FitzRoy saves the HMS Challenger     Apr. 1835 - Oct. 1835:                    Oct. 1835 - Mar. 1836:Survey of Galapagos Archipelago               Into the Pacific Ocean                                                               Arrival at New Zealand                                                               and Australia   Mar. 1836 - Oct. 1836:Exploring the Cocos IslandsThe Begale arrives at South AfricaArrival at St. Helena IslandThe return to South AmericaThe Azores are SpottedFinally home in England!The Fate of the Beagle   Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.[5][6] By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact.       Roald Amundsen   He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06). Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən]; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led theAntarctic expedition (1910–12) to become the first men to reach the South Pole in December 1911. In 1926,        Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–99) Main article: Belgian Antarctic Expedition Portraits of Roald Amundsen Amundsen joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–99) as first mate. This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the Belgica, became the first expedition to winter in Antarctica.[         David Livingstone  late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile   Although Livingstone is known as "Africa's greatest missionary,” he is only recorded as having converted one African: Sechele, who was the chief of the Kwena people of Botswana. Kwena Livingstone's heart was buried under a Mvula tree near the spot where he died, now the site of the Livingstone Memorial.[29]His body together with his journal was carried over a thousand miles by his loyal attendants Chuma and Susi to the coast toBagamoyo, and was returned to Britain for burial. After lying in repose at No.1 Savile Row — then headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society, now the home of bespoke tailors Gieves & Hawkes — his remains were interred at Westminster Abbey, London.[4][30]   Famous people buried at Westminster Abbey Oliver CromwellSoldier and politician died 1658 Sir Isaac NewtonScientist died 1727 Charles DickensNovelist died 1870 Charles DarwinNaturalist died 1882 Sir Isaac NewtonScientist died 1727 Sir Laurence OlivierActor died 1989     Henry Morton Stanley   Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB, born John Rowlands (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone   Henry Morton Stanley's life was a fascinating mix of heroic adventure, journalism and fantasy. He became famous by finding David Livingstone and writing about it in the New York Herald -- even though Livingstone was not lost. Stanley was born in North Wales, an illegitimate child, and baptised as John Rowlands. Aged 17, he ran away to sea and in New Orleans gave himself a new name. During following years, he led a roving life in America, working mostly as a freelance journalist. He fought on both sides in the Civil War.   Henry Stanley with Kalulu, his African personal servant and adopted child. Stanley named the Kalulu Falls after him after the boy died there, aged about 12, when his canoe was washed over the waterfall.